Quotes By Famous Authors: [J]
It is often said that the magnitude of a people is measured by their ability to know how to win.
The day I die, it won't be because gravity knocked me on my back so much as it will be that I could no longer ...
Let's all agree to disagree agreeably.
If there be no place for wild bison in all of Montana, then surely we have crossed a line between the Last Best Place and ...
I just do my best to put the ball in play and put it in play where no one's going to make a play on ...
The heater doesn't work. The engine sounds sort of like a pig. And don't open the glove compartment because it disturbs the mice.
An important element of intelligence is self-control.
My mother was the dearest, sweetest angel. She didn't talk; she sang. She was a tower of strength.
I'd rather do more with the same, then the same with less.
My boyfriends love my dad. He's like the perfect in-law to have. In fact, if my boyfriend and I are in a fight, my dad ...
Some days I feel more like a scribe than a creator. I will have the major points fleshed out, but there is always a turn ...
It is not the truth that people cannot handle. It is the consequences that stem from that truth.
I'm certainly not as tough as people think. I'm not a fighter and so forth. I'd just as soon go home.
I need to have a cheesesteak.
Outside the city. Fortunately for them,
Elizabeth Keckley was a woman of remarkable strength, courage, perseverance, and dignity. She was exceptionally talented, but also very diligent and ambitious, and together those ...
There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.
Courage is the thing. All goes if courage goes.[The Rectorial Address Delivered by James M. Barrie at St. Andrew's University May 3, 1922, to the ...
Be superior by having no inferiors. Don't force for equality, but give. For it is not up to us to decide how others treat us, ...
The memorability of a fact is inversely proportional to its usefulness. - Jason's Third Law
To celebrate the inner presence of God . . . is to become grateful for every moment of life. Every mundane and every juicy moment ...
I had always loved to write and my mom was my editor for my school papers.
I swallowed down all the words, until they knotted up in my throat, and now I'm choking on I love you's and please don't go's.
We have to rise above bad fortune. We have to be in the good and enjoy the good, study and work and adventure and friendship ...
They say life isn't about waiting for the storm to end, it's about learning to dance in the rain. You have dancing in the rain ...
I was a greedy, ravenous individual, determined to rise from the bottom to the top ... It wasn't me!
Don't let life happen to you. Choose to be a Conscious Creator and shape your future and the future of the planet
We're too busy busting whorehouses or solving murders. That's what makes the show so funny
Evangelical faith has the gospel of Christ for its foundation;
The downside to gun control is genocide.
Coca-Cola is just a concoction of chemicals; garlic wards off heart disease and cancer; an aspirin a day keeps the doctor away. None of these ...
Experience has taught us that a surprisingly high percentage of all our recorded crime, especially burglary and other thefts, are committed by the people in ...
Following a trend is useful, until you start alienating the original. The last thing we want is to live in a world where everything is ...
It was ironic that people built cities and huddled together for protection, but show no concern or consideration as they pass one another on the ...
Spiritual awakening refers to a dramatic expansion in consciousness rather than a minor realization about oneself.
Wine is just a conversation waiting to happen.
The party should stand for a constantly wider diffusion of property. That is the greatest social and economic security that can come to free men. ...
Most wives think of their husbands as bumbling braggarts with whom they happen to be in love.
How do you know that what you perceive is not an illusion?
I think every day is made up of tiny little tests. Some are tests of character. Some are tests of fortitude. Others are tests of ...
Is the noble Lord aware that, at the age of 80, there are very few pleasures left to me, but one of them is passive ...
When you have growth and development, you have more work to do in the fire business. Thats going to be the reality in the future.
There's not much simplifying. You gotta know what you gotta know. That's how the quarterback position is, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
A recurring theme in the book is instinct versus articulation. Although teen services people may know and understand issues on an instinctive level, they must ...
I had five years of failure, really, before I had the first initial sign of success.
A librarian is not a legal process. There is not librarian in the country unless she or he is a lawyer who is in the ...
Heat stroke kills 80 percent of victims if left untreated.
In time of rain I come:I can sing among the flowers:I utter my song: my heart is glad.Water of flowers foams over the earth:My heart ...
Love is that enviable state that knows no envy or vanity, only empathy and a longing to be greater than oneself ...
~I gripped the knife even tighter. Far off in the distance, I could still hear them speaking, but only one thing was clear in my ...